Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura

An eight year old boy with Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) presented with acute compartment syndrome (ACS) of his left hand following arterial cannulation of his radial artery in intensive care unit. Emergency decompression and fasciotomy were performed. The authors report this first case in literatu...

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Autores principales: Luis, Guntur E, Ng, Eng-Seng
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17411454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-6
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description An eight year old boy with Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) presented with acute compartment syndrome (ACS) of his left hand following arterial cannulation of his radial artery in intensive care unit. Emergency decompression and fasciotomy were performed. The authors report this first case in literature and discuss how HSP can be complicated by ACS and ways to prevent the latter from happening.
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spelling pubmed-18478272007-04-06 Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Luis, Guntur E Ng, Eng-Seng J Med Case Reports Case Report An eight year old boy with Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) presented with acute compartment syndrome (ACS) of his left hand following arterial cannulation of his radial artery in intensive care unit. Emergency decompression and fasciotomy were performed. The authors report this first case in literature and discuss how HSP can be complicated by ACS and ways to prevent the latter from happening. BioMed Central 2007-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC1847827/ /pubmed/17411454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-6 Text en Copyright © 2007 Luis and Ng; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
title Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
title_full Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
title_fullStr Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
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title_short Acute compartment syndrome of the hand in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
title_sort acute compartment syndrome of the hand in henoch-schonlein purpura
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847827/
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